THE YELLOW SKIRT

As you've seen before, we love pairing our brights with neutrals. This outfit was really easy. We're guessing that many of you have denim shirts (luckily this one is short sleeve so it works under the looser fitting shirt without making me too hot). The skirt and denim speak for the color where the shoes, bag and over-shirt are merely compliments to them. We're kind of thinking Gucci resort here. So go ahead and try it!

ERDEM RESORT 2013

 

Erdem is fast becoming such a favorite of ours. One of us saw this resort collection and immediately went to her closet to see if she had any small but similar florals that could be paired together. Sadly the consensus was that she didn't. So we will definitely be on the look out. We love how the florals are almost the same but different, making for such interesting looks. And although we wouldn't show up in the head to toe floral pant looks, we just love the other looks in the photo. But we have to admit that the top photo is our favorite....

HAIR

OK guys. Melody's going to do it. It's not a terribly drastic change, but it's still a change. She's cutting some locks before she takes off to Mexico next week. It will be the cut of Alexa Chung up top, with the length of Rose Byrne down below. If anyone thinks she shouldn't do it, speak now or forever hold your peace....

ANJA RUBIK FOR VOGUE JAPAN

All right, you guys saw bits of the Dior Couture collection here, and now you can see some of these beautiful creations in print. Keep in mind the hats are crazy, but we love the full skirts nipped in at the waist. And we have to admit, those sleeves in the looks up top are pretty wonderful. We always love to see when runway looks show up in magazine shoots....

LOOSE WHITE BUTTON DOWN

This look was definitely inspired by one of our favorite street style bloggers Hanneli. We just love how accessible our favorite blogs are for inspiration. We loved the look here so much that we had to recreate it in our own way.  And we're telling you, the looser fitting button down is a must with skinny jeans right now (just check out some of our most recent pins on pinterest). On that note, in case some of you guys missed our tweet and facebook post, we were saying that having something loose on top with something tighter on bottom is a must in our book. If you go tight on bottom (with skirts or pants) and tight on top, you're just too tight. But then the same doesn't necessarily work for the opposite (which we talked about in our trouser post). Right now, loose trousers or a maxi skirt look best with loose on top as well. The key there is to ALWAYS have definition at the waist (whether slightly tucked, belted, etc.). This way you're hopefully always looking effortless and cool (think Zina). So in other words, don't do the skinny skinny....:)

(Forever 21 button down, Forever 21 chanel-inspired sweater, Urban Outfitters jeans, and Chinese Laundry platforms)

THE REST OF CANNES 2012

Doutzen Kroes in Elie Saab 

Alexandra Maria Lara in Elie Saab Couture

Diane Kruger in Chanel

Berenice Bejo in Giambattista Valli Couture

Aishwarya Rai in Elie Saab

Kirsten Dunst in Dolce and Gabbana

Diane Kruger in Prabal Gurung

Kylie Minogue in Dolce and Gabbana

Elodie Bouchez in Chanel Couture

Caroline Sieber in Alessandra Rich

Marion Cotillard in Chanel

Reese Witherspoon in Versace

Here are some of the other looks from the Cannes red carpet. I don't think we ever realized how dressy the festival was! Anyway, we were so happy to see Berenice Bejo wear one of our favorite Giambattista Valli gowns (that we posted about here) on the red carpet! You can also see that Elie Saab was EVERYWHERE this year (just look at our other fancy red carpet posts and you'll see Mr Saab's designs all over the place). We also think Diane Kruger was consistently awesome throughout the festival. The Chanel look (near the top) was seriously RIGHT off the runway. The Chanel Resort 2013 collection showed while Cannes was going on. So everyone was way surprised to see her wearing one of the looks a few days later. Not to mention the collection seemed a bit crazy (some people were saying it was as if Marie Antoinette were to go on a cruise) but then again, we've been surprised when other seemingly unwearable collections show up on the red carpet and they look awesome.

Well there you have it! Here's our official goodbye to Cannes for this year!